Joy City Hotel Beijing

... - Yonghe Gong) - 798 Art District (free, metro Dongzhimen and then bus 909; about an hour trip from the center) To Stay: Beijing King's Joy Hotel - (Y40/night/bed in dormitory; +86 10 5217 1900; No 81, Meishi Street, Xuanwe District, metro - Qianmen; ...

... , on my bare arms. It's so wonderful. So freeing. From the cold dry isolated steppes of Mongolia to the busy city of Beijing, with a population almost greater than Australia. What a contrast. The traffic wasn't too bad, wide streets, very modern ...

... on the cheap here, but Xicheng (or Xidan, if you call it by it's subway station name) is famous for it's shopping malls.  'Joy City' is the most well known one to us local foreigners, and it is 11 stories tall with 2 floors of basement below, taking ...

... on Saturday. It was a long ride to the airport but our guide pointed out the various sights. We finally arrrived at the Joy City Hotel, a beautiful place. To our surprise, there is a mall in our hotel! Imagine our surprise at that...but it made it very ...

This morning at 5:30 a.m. we met in the lobby of the Joy City Hotel which had been our "home" since arriving in Beijing. We checked out of the hotel, loaded our bags into the bus, boarded the bus, and headed for the Beijing Airport once again. This ...

... is famous for the massacre of peaceful protesters many years ago. We snapped a few photos and proceeded to the Forbidden City. I dealt with the heat in Beijing much better than I do in Chengdu. For one, Beijing has a dry heat that I can compare to Reno, ...

... of a relief as constant booking of stuff has gotten to be pretty exhausting.   Exploring the city  For a budget stay in Beijing, I'd definitely recommend our hotel, King's Joy.  It's really good value for money and a stone's throw away ...

... use of coal, the country's main source of energy, is the major cause of this pollution. I stayed two nights at the King's Joy Hotel in Beijing which is ok though the beds are like sleeping on an ironing board; this appears to be the norm in China. The ...

12/08 - Helen Emotionial farewells with everybody before we set off on our travels, but here we go...... Arrive in Beijing and it is scorching!  35C and humidity to match!!!!! Andrew is sweating buckets..... Check in to King Joy hostel - no ...

... or so.  After doing some prep work for the meetings with the hotel, I was finally able to take my first stroll around Beijing.  The hotel is only a few blocks from the Forbidden City, so that is where I headed.  At first, the smog wasn't an ...

... a visit to a non-profit organization.  We had lunch at a very special adult day care for the mentally challenged called Beijing Hui Ling.  The lunch was awesome.  We had spring rolls and dumplings which were cooked by some of the ...

Hello from the capital Beijing. And what an impressive capital city it is: a lot like London in some ways but couldn't be further away in others. We arrived via another very fast train. Only a couple of months ago hundreds of people got killed in a ...

... game with him in which we threw hoops around each other's heads.  There were bands and on-the-spot music lessons; games of mahjong, cards, Chinese chess, and dominoes; and Beijing opera dancers.  It was a beautiful place and we left with peaceful ...

... , pointing to a rickty table with a Buddha ornament on it. Priceless. We are going to a Kung Foo theatre performance tonight which we have been told is brilliant, I will let you know. I am relishing being in a hotel and have had 2 showers today ...

... necessary! We hopped on the bus and paid the $1 Yuan fare (0.15 cents USD).  Our stop ended up being at the Beijing West Railway Station.  The Station was absolutely packed!  There were thousands of people everywhere!  We had to go up ...

... of brown haze. It resembled something out of a sci-fi movie. It was Saturday morning and every Chinese tourist in Beijing also decided to visit the Forbidden City. I knew the place was big, but we had no idea how big it actually is. Entrance fees to ...

... up to 450,000 visitors in the city this month - about the same as last August. At the five-star Peninsula Beijing Hotel, spokeswoman Cecilia Lui says tighter visa restrictions translate into fewer guests. "The current business level in the lead-up ...

... to stay another day, but was starting to rethink my itinerary. As brief as it was, my visit to Beijing had become more than just a sojourn to a foreign city but an experience of much more profound discovery. I was moved not so much by the palaces and ...

... Tian'anmen Square which was absolutely packed. Headed up the Zhengyangmen Gate, which is the South Gate for what use to be the Beijing City Wall (now mostly gone to make way for roads). Quite nice building but, of course, completely renovated only a few ...

... joy as the humidity is much less although it is also much cooler. We are in a lovely hotel right in the central upper end shopping district of Beijing. At this moment, Mark and Kendall are making their way towards the local Starbucks as they have ...